“YOU ARE THERE!”

 Psalm 139:7-12                            (ESV)

    “[7] Where shall I go from YOUR SPIRIT?

        Or where shall I flee from YOUR presence? 

    [8] If I ascend to heaven, “YOU ARE THERE”!

        If I make my bed in Sheol, “YOU ARE THERE”! 

    [9] If I take the wings of the morning

        and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 

    [10] even there YOUR HAND shall lead me,

        and YOUR RIGHT HAND. 

    [11] If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,

        and the light about me be night,” 

    [12] even the darkness is not dark to YOU;

        the night is bright as the day,

        for darkness is as light with YOU.”

There are certain times in life where we find ourselves in the midst of darkness, possibly a place where FEAR and DOUBT cause us to calculate our next move with great hesitation to avoid making a mistake!  In my frailty, knowing that “YOU ARE THERE” guiding and directing my paths SHOULD bring PEACE and ASSURANCE to my life?  But we tend to live in a “rat-race” environment where our emotions and hastily construed decisions are not influenced by OUR CREATOR, the ONE WHO IS “YOU ARE THERE”!!!

Just a few verses later in Scripture, Psalm 139:14 says “I praise YOU, for I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY made. Wonderful are YOUR works; my soul knows it very well.”  Since we are FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY made, we MUST get past what our minds and circumstances SEE and focus on what OUR CREATOR has PLANNED for us!  “YOU ARE THERE” is written for us to SEE that HE is in control, and we are HIS!  YOUR RIGHT HAND is guiding me and my FAITH shall NOT BE distracted by the cares of “this world”!

Even though I am weak and tend to NOT HAVE a WAIT mechanism in my body, HIS GREATEST BLESSINGS are waiting where “YOU ARE THERE”!  Psalm 27:14 rings TRUE once again for me, “WAIT FOR THE LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; WAIT FOR THE LORD!”  WAITING FOR THE LORD should be a mindset that we embrace as “YOU ARE THERE” SHOULD BE where we desire to be???